SCIENTISTS TO STUDY ATOMTREATED PLANTS
(10 a.m) NEW YORK, June 23. The Government announced today a vast new programme tor studying the inner secrets of plant life through the use of atomic energy and predicted that new and valuable information about soils and crops would be discovered. Experiments are to be conducted with radio-active materials. Geiger counters and test plants in the guarded Government greenhouse at Beltsville, Maryland. The greenhouse, costing 250,000 dollars. has been especially designed so that scientists can handle safely “hot” radio-active materials from atomic furnaces at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Officials predicted that fundamental facts learned about plant nutrition and soils eventually would be put to practical use in improving crop yields.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 5
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